In small groups you will create a game board for a board game (think Life, Monopoly, Candyland) that shows how an encountered event goes along a path to becoming a memory (jackpot!). Along the way there are many perils, not everything gets remembered of course! But the process with show exactly where input goes in the brain and how it can reach long term memory or the end of the game. Keep it simple enough for kids to play.
Resources: usa today,
hippocampus
memory notes.
Terms to include:
stimulus! (input)
short term memory (sensory memory)
neurons
encoding
storage (engram)
consolidation
hippocampus
phonological loop
visual-spatial sketchpad
central executive